FSL Surf News :: FSL Surf News :: 11/2007

Waves season is upon us! As we get into the fall and winter season waves in south and central Florida become more consistent on a daily basis. Now is a great time to work on your surfing and enhance those skills as the season builds. If you have taken lessons with us before some of the groups programs offer great benefits on getting those waves.

Saturday Surf Clinics run every other Saturday in south and central Florida:

Click here to see clinics

Weekday Workshops (only 2 people are needed to establish this workshop):

Click here to see workshops

If you want to pursue private lessons from now until November 20th you can save half of the price of a lesson by taking it with a friend. All you have to do is sign up a friend or friends and yourself for a lesson and you only pay half for your part of the lesson!

Get ready for some great waves!!

FSL Surf News :: FSL Surf News :: 9/2007

2008 Surf Camps—Register Today! click here
We have just finished up our summer surf camps this summer and we had great success getting some newbie’s surfing and having an awesome time. Camps ran from late May and into August. We had family, teen, kids and even adult camps. We are already setting things up for camps next summer and plan to have camps in Cocoa Beach and Jupiter.

We had a number of large events this summer from a variety of organizations. Our better group sizes ran from 40 to 80 students.

Stand Up Paddle Surfing!

Stand up paddle surfing (SUP) is an older concept of surfing practiced by Hawaiians in the past. It consists of using a large long surf board and you move by paddling with a long paddle. The Beach Boys did it way back when and now even Jimmy Buffet is shown doing SUP on screen with his latest tour. SUP is an alternate choice of surfers to stay in shape and ride waves. Board designs and shapes have been innovative and SUP has now evolved to be the hip, slick and cool thing to do on the water. Some board designers are incorporating mounts for sails so the SUP can act as a sail board, surf board or paddle board.

The learning curve can be challenging especially at first in ruff surf or when working currents or wind. SUP is a great upper body work out but it takes a lot of patience and practice to get good in the waves. The optimal wave to work with would be a slow moving one to tow foot wave that builds and breaks slowly and hopefully does not close out too hard. With practice, just like surfing this can be another fun water person activity

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